Items

• Northcliffe, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Northcliffe is an area on the south side of the Aire Valley near to Saltaire. It was a site of woods, agriculture, coal mining and stone quarrying from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, In 1919 Norman Rae, a local mill owner and MP for Shipley, donated £12,500 to the local council to purchase 114 acres of Northcliffe for use by the public. It is now a park, allotments and playing fields.
• 2024.42: The Bradford Book

  Paperback book with full title 'The Bradford Book: The first-ever handbook/survival guide to the Bradford area' edited by Roger Ratcliffe. Handbook for local residents and visotrs to the geography and history of Bradford as it was in the early 1990s.Mentions Sir Titus Salt
• D3-021: Leisure Park & Ameneties

  Coloured postcard of Saltaire boathouse and the river
• 2021.4.8.3: Conveyance of Hirst Mills

  The handwritten conveyance, dated 5th January 1921, is an original deed, transferring Hirst Mills and Hirst House, and land behind the house between the river and the canal, to Glyn Thomas. Registered at the West Riding Registry of Deeds 17th January 1921. The conveyance includes a coloured plan of the land referenced in the deed
• 2021.4.8.4: Photocopy of 2021.4.8.3

  The original handwritten conveyance, dated 5th January 1921, is an original deed, transferring Hirst Mills and Hirst House, and land behind the house between the river and the canal, to Glyn Thomas. Registered at the West Riding Registry of Deeds 17th January 1921. The conveyance includes a coloured plan of the land referenced in the deed
• C2b-184: Terrace in Saltaire Park

  Laminated sheet showing 2 images of the Terrace in Saltaire Park & view across the river to the mill
• H2-208.51: Baker Letters - regarding: potential sale of land

  Mr Drake would like to buy trees by river & in Hirst wood to be used for logs; Mr Hill & Mr Gates considering buying land in Shipley & Baildon
• H2-208.95: Baker Letters - regarding: sale of Milner House and fields

  Mr Hill wants Milner House; Others wanting fields from River Bridge to Hirst Mill & Higher Hirst Mill; John has been offered money to oversee Milner Field after it has been sold
• B1-076: Salts Mill

  Copy of postcard of 'Saltaire Mills from the River'
• B1-341: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case

  Copy of plan of Saltaire Mill between the railway and the river. By W.Rhodes Nunn
• B1-367: Salts Mill

  Photocopy of coloured postcard showing the New Mill chimney and cast-iron bridge, seen from across the river in Robert's Park
• B1-372: Salts Mill

  Black and White postcard of Salt's Mill sheds on the river
• C1-002: Saltaire village - Maps & Plans

  Laminated copy of a plan of Saltaire with 10 plots around mill measured c.1880s + allotments by river
• C2b-032.8: Boathouse, Saltaire

  Photograph of the boathouse, Saltaire, showing second bridge over the river and mill in background.
• C2b-204a-b: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  Streroscopic card of photograph of Victoria Road river bridge & weir + new print
• C2b-286k: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  One of a folder of mounted postcards and photographs of Saltaire.Mill & Boathouse / Old river bridge
• C2b-287: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  One of a folder of mounted postcards and photographs of Saltaire.Photograph of Victoria Road river bridge
• C3b-273: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Booklet: 'A Bridge Over the River' by Ian Watson (2015)
• D3-091: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Laminated photos of Old /New Promenade - Old/New River bank - Old/New Shelter
• F1a-005a-b: Death of John Nicholson

  2 copies of newspaper cutting on the death of John Nicholson, the 'Airedale Poet' who died in 1843 after crossing the river in what was to become Saltaire in 1853.